Somewhere between what we see and what that vision asks of us, is poetry. In art's reciprocal space A. Robert Lee's WRITTEN EYE: VISUALS/VERSE lingers, bringing to readers entrance words to engage their own witness eye. This catalogue of seeing, this caressing litany of artistic encounters across continents takes us from the surfaces of photographs, film, sculpture, architecture, and painting to their interior reverberations?—?and ours. Lee's poetry brings to this feast of angle a wealth of knowledge, an eye for striking detail, and a poet's questions. From Georgia O'Keeffe to Ai Weiwei, the Parthenon to Prague, take this tour: This is imagination alive, exhaling. -- Kimberly Blaeser, Wisconsin Poet Laureate author of Apprenticed to Justice

A. Robert Lee's enquiring eye roams over paintings, photographs, sculptures, movies, buildings and cityscapes. In each and every text, he picks the locks of vision. Through multiple modes of seeing, these vignettes and meditations reveals a rich, varied world, brimming with energy and delight. -- Richard Berengarten author of UNDER BALKAN LIGHT, Cambridge, UK

What a feast for the senses! A. Robert Lee's verse courageously explores the pinnacles of artistic achievement; the fragments of a whole that kaleidoscope and then coalesce in the mind's eye. I felt as though I had traveled the globe, a witness to some of